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TIFF 2023

Alex Heeney / September 12, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall

Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is a courtroom drama about how we can never fully understand people’s private lives because we only see them through fragments of their public lives.

Alex Heeney / September 11, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: A Happy Day

Hisham Zaman’s film A Happy Day follows a group of teenagers in a remote refugee centre on the cusp of adulthood and thus, deportation.

Alex Heeney / September 11, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: Hanna Slak’s Not a Word and Ninna Pálmadóttir’s Solitude

Hanna Slak’s Not a Word and Ninna Pálmadóttir’s Solitude are predictable films about intergenerational connections between lonely people but are elevated by thoughtful, sensitive direction by their first-time filmmakers.

Alex Heeney / September 10, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: Nabin Subba’s A Road to a Village

Pawo Choyning Dorji’s film A Road to a Village follows a family in a remote mountanous village in Nepal where the new road to the city brings modernity but threatens their way of life.

Alex Heeney / September 8, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: Pawo Choyning Dorji’s The Monk and the Gun

Pawo Choyning Dorji’s film The Monk and the Gun is a warm, light-hearted, often funny story of a place shifting from one way of life to another, uncertain whether newer is necessarily better.

Alex Heeney / September 7, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: Pema Tseden’s Snow Leopard

Set in the high altitudes of the Tibetan Plateau, against stunning mountains and lakes, Pema Tseden’s Snow Leopard is a call for empathy, not just for animals but other humans

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